The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS 2017

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Example/उदाहरण: A decade-old diesel vehicles will now have to go off the roads with the National Green Tribunal on Thursday declining to lift its ban on them in Delhi-NCR, noting that emissions from diesel vehicles were carcinogenic.

Example/उदाहरण: In October, 2015, a Yale Law School study warned that efforts were being made not merely to forcibly displace the Rohingya but towards committing the crime of genocide through the complete annihilation of the ethnic group.

Example/उदाहरण: Repercussions of the violence in Myanmar are now being felt around the globe, particularly in nearby countries; in India, where scores of Rohingya are lodged — reportedly totalling 40,000 — it must come to us as a matter of shame that the state is so much as considering returning the refugees back to the jaws of not merely political persecution but of mind-boggling terror and savagery.

4. Repercussion [ree-per-kuhsh-uh n, rep-er-]-प्रतिक्रिया/प्रतिघातNoun/संज्ञा: an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action; the state of being driven back by a resisting body; a rebounding or recoil of something after impact; reverberation; echo.Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: backlash, chain reaction, effect, fallout, impact, influence, reaction, reverberation, side effect, echo, feedback, flak, follow-through, follow-up, imprint, kickback.Antonym/विलोमार्थी: cause.

5. Persecution [pur-si-kyoo-shuh n]-उत्पीड़न/अत्याचारNoun/संज्ञा: the act of persecuting; the state of being persecuted; a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group.Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: expulsion, ill-treatment, imprisonment, killing, maltreatment, massacre, mistreatment, murder, oppression, torture, annoyance, banishment, exile, infliction, teasing, torment.Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: happiness, joy, help, stimulation.

Example/उदाहरण: By any account, the Rohingya are at the centre of a humanitarian catastrophe of terrifying proportions.

8. Humanitarian [hyoo-man-i-tair-ee-uh n or, often, yoo-]-मानवीयAdjective/विश्लेषण: having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people; of or relating to ethical or theological humanitarianism; pertaining to the saving of human lives or to the alleviation of suffering.Noun/संज्ञा: a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist; a person who professes ethical or theological humanitarianism.Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: altruistic, charitable, humane, philanthropic, good, beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, generous, idealistic, kindly, public-spirited.Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: inhumane, uncharitable, unkind, unsympathetic.